War Game Center commissioned

Saturday 23rd May 2020

PPU

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has commissioned a wargame centre at the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College in Kimaka, Jinja District.

A wargame is a type of strategy game that simulates warfare realistically, as opposed to abstract strategy games such as chess. Wargames may be miniature figurines on a tabletop, board games or video games.

The Uganda Senior Command and staff college is a training facility for senior commanders in the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), including the army, air force and Special Forces

Speaking at the occasion, the President thanked the army, the training teams and the Indian Association of Uganda who mobilised to build the center, saying it will definitely contribute to the quality of training.

‘This centre is also a great gesture of the wider cooperation and support we enjoy with the government and the people of India’’

The President hailed the relationship between the UPDF and the Indian army which he said has a lot of knowledge, experience and heroism.

“Our relationship with India has existed for centuries. We were colonised together by a small group of people who came from Europe, but when we all woke up, and the small groups ran away.

During that time, we fought together first against the Japanese in Burma. The heroic Indians are the ones who stopped the westward expansion of Japan at the famous battle of Kohima.

Mahatma Ghandi struggled with our elders against colonialism, Jawaharlal Nehru too struggled with our elders against colonialism and now we are working with Prime Minister Narendera Modi. I salute the Indian political class for choosing to always work with us.

The epitome of India’s importance to Uganda is engraved in the fact that Mahatma Ghandi’s ashes were immersed in Jinja.

President Museveni commended the the Indian Community in Uganda, for its contribution to building Uganda through business and investment.